Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Juan José García-Ripoll
>>  <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:36:12 +0100
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> > (This is a secondary point, but Emacs is not linked statically, at
>> > least not by default.
>> 
>> Just a side note: the build-zips.sh script that makes the Windows
>> distribution files always uses the flag -static when building emacs.
>
> I don't think the build should use that.  It is certainly not the
> default.

IIRC, without this the no-deps version fails, because of a requirement
for libwinpthreads. I think it has been there since I added those files
and it was discussed at the time. I'm happy for anyone to try taking it
out, rebuilding emacs and checking whether it is still necessary.


Phil